famished

"At dinner, overindulgence doesn't happen because you don’t come to the table famished," she added.

And audiences, it turned out, were famished for such a protagonist.

It was Ramadan, and when the time came to break the traditional fast, T was famished.

The district ranger was expecting the crew at his ranger station, so he and his wife treated the famished smokejumpers to a chicken dinner, ice cream and apple pie when they emerged from the backcountry.

Forty-two people — and let’s not forget they’re people — arrived in downtown Los Angeles, presumably famished as well as frightened after a 23-hour bus ride with starvation rations.